Howdy folks, welcome to the work frenzy the week before a holiday always seems to bring! If you need a study break, we’ve got you covered: head on over to CampaignsandElections.com to check out the latest edition of Technology Bytes...
A political campaign is a complex beast: from messaging to fundraising to field, campaign organizers have a huge number of parts to build, integrate and coordinate. The digital side is no exception, particularly at the presidential level. Staff have...
New Epolitics.com contributor Will Coley is the founder of AquiferMedia.com. To measure the online influence of your organization or campaign, it’s not enough to simply count your followers on social media. That’s part of the argument in...
The final print edition of Campaigns & Elections landed in the e.politics bunker a few days ago, reminding me that I failed miserably at promoting the current Technology Bytes column when it went online back in April. C&E may be done as a...
In June of 2007, the political world was just waking up to the idea that individual citizens were going to shake up how political communications was done. As the the race to succeed George W. Bush rolled into its first summer, the Macaca moment was...
In private meetings last week, Hillary Clinton pledged in New Hampshire to work with state parties in “early states” to help them rebuild. At first appearance, this would seem to be an amazing boon. The trope goes that Obama for America...
Check out last week’s top 10 over-performing Facebook posts, from the several hundred progressive groups followed by our friends at CrowdTangle. Remember, these are posts that have seen significantly more engagement than the norm for their...
Beth Becker’s latest “Political Social Grab Bag” e-newsletter is out, and you should check out the whole April issue archived right here, an Epolitics.com online exclusive. The Grab Bag is monthly for now, and it’s a hit with...
Breaking news from Facebook Algorithm World, and this is important! Individual Facebook users now have access to a new setting available called “News Feed Preferences”…you can find it on your own profile by clicking on the dropdown...
Author’s Note: In Part One of this series, I discussed the importance of using technology in political efforts not just to build a better persuasion tool, but to scale meaningful relationships with an infinite number of people. In Part Two, I...